Laser Eye Surgery Safe Long-Term: Study

Laser eye surgery doesn't appear to have long-term effects on the cells that line the inside of the cornea, a new study has found…

The study findings are published in the November issue of the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.

"Our results support the findings of numerous short-term studies that found no significant endothelial cell loss after Lasik and PRK," wrote Drs. Sanjay V. Patel and William M. Bourne, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.